Prynne mentioned! I went to one of his lectures once. There was construction noise outside. He paused, looked up and said "I suspect they know as much about what we are doing in here, as we know about what they are doing out there" and then carried on.
finally finished the complete rework of translations for 2 short essays Horkheimer wrote (w/ Adorno) printed alongside the 1st version of Dialectic of Enlightenment in 1944:
“Struggle & Non-Violence”; “Poetry & Morals.”
On militants & martyrs, & the crisis of modern art!
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The Spectator published this attack on me & colleagues just as the High Court is considering Sussex’s request for review of the Office for Students fine. It accuses us of ‘repressing’ our students. The magazine ignored my request for to reply. Please disseminate.
alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin...
For @eflux.bsky.social, I wrote about Henrike Kohpeiß's new book Bourgeois Coldness
www.e-flux.com/notes/678345...
some exciting news!
This was appalling to begin with, but I wasn’t aware they were allowing GB news in?
In an essay in the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Nate Holdren elaborates three levels of analytical abstraction at which intellectual historians invoke the term "political economy," turning our attention to the way that capitalism structurally conditions ignorance of the social totality.
🔊 Dear Colleagues & Comrades! We are pleased to announce a network dedicated to addressing the omission of Palestine and the ongoing genocide within UK-based American Studies. We are hosting a symposium in Central London on the 9th May 2026. Abstracts are due on 6th February 2026. Please circulate!
As would I!
Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’ - translated by Alberto Toscano for Viewpoint
viewpointmag.com/2015/01/01/i...
Loving this so far
Amazing!
Fascinating… fellow Brighton resident here. Have you got any more info on M sohn-rethel? I see he provided the translation for the HM edition
Poster for the 'Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law' conference, due to be held at the University of Warwick on 3 December 2025. The background for the poster is Paul Klee's Angelus Dubiosus( 1939). Listed speakers are: Jessica Feely, Will Spendlove, Tarik Kochi, Adrian Wilding, Chris O'Kane, Nadia Bou Ali, and Rosie Woodhouse.
For anyone interested in the critical revival of Rose's work, I am co-convening 'Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law' at the University of Warwick this coming December.
Registration and further details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/.... Abstracts and paper titles in due course.
I would!
Ed adkins’ exhibition at Tate Britain is really worth seeing, if you get the chance. I forgot to take any photos, apart from these two of ‘reference books’ left at the end of the exhibition
Read, share, and support students and faculty at the CRMEP—not just because it's 'world-renowned' or whatever, but because, in the absence of resistance, the slashing of the CRMEP only shows every critical humanities department the image of its own future
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/o...
Enjoyed this review of the new translation of Capital by Alyssa Battistoni - gives a clear picture of the political motivations behind each of the previous translations of the text into English
Ah David lynch. I have nothing to say right now, I’m just shocked
I Saw the TV Glow - watched this the other night. Upsetting film, the ending is a gut punch
